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Monday, July 23, 2012

When Life Trumps Blogging

These are the excuses events that bring blogging to a halt:

It may be a little difficult but do you see the discolored streaks running down the walls?  Wonder what that might be?  Well, its none other than toilet water.


Yeah. Toilet water running down my walls. Soaked through the two rolls of toilet paper. Purple towel drenched. In pools on the floor. And splattered all over the curtains.

How?

Well the wonderful city of Wauseon was flushing out the sewer drains in our neighborhood and apparently we had a birds nest type blockage in the vent in our house which caused pressure to built up until SPLASH - toilet water spewed out of our toilet onto every surface in the bathroom.


And we have two bathrooms.


It was a wonderful way to spend the day.

Not really.

But we have been spending a lot of our summer days doing this:


and this:


We've been eating a lot of this:


and collecting these:


Long summer days means we need to catch up on this:


And summer get togethers mean these are never ending:


And neither is this:


But maybe once we get this installed, it won't be so daunting:


However, I never mind doing this:


I spend a lot of my time here:

And try to spend more time on here:

I've spent a lot of time doing this:

And as a family we've spent a lot of time here:

And when we're home you can find us doing this:


Of course, summer wouldn't be complete without a lot of this:

And some of this (whatever that may be):
(You can't tell, but Yoshi was very, very glad the sprayer wasn't hooked up to a hose.)

So there you have it. 

 Our summer, thus far, in a nutshell. 

 I look forward to life slowly down as Fall approaches and I can get back to blogging.  Of all the artsy-crafty things I do, scrapbooking is not one of them.  Blogging is the one way I chronicle our day to day lives and mark the milestones of our fast growing children.

So stay tuned this week as I have a lot of catching up to do.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Happy 4th

Since I forgot to take my camera to the fireworks last night, we'll spend this day reminiscing back to Bree's younger years.

For your listening delight, this is Bree's firework experience from 2009.


Monday, July 2, 2012

OBX - A Week in Picures part 2

He had no desire to be in the pool...


...but if you pulled him out, he wanted to be back in.


The beach was always a safe bet.









One of the many thrilling things about being on the beach was waiting until dark to catch ghost crabs.  Bree had no fear reaching out to pick these things up.  I, on the other hand...


...happily stood by and took pictures of these, um, wonderful creatures.



Sunday, July 1, 2012

OBX - Tuppence



Feed the birds, tuppence a bag



tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag





Feed the birds, thats what she cries



 
While overhead her birds fill the skies.


Saturday, June 30, 2012

OBX - A week in pictures


Getting the fishing started.

My little snorkeler.


This child seriously dislikes air conditioning.  Hot chocolate while on the beach.  What a weirdo.



This picture was taken while sitting on the beach outside our house.  The building on the far right is the Rodanthe Pier (featured in the movie 'Nights in Rodanthe'.  And the peach colored house in the center of the picture was the house we vacationed in in 2008. 

Rodanthe Pier

Jake's footprints

Playing catch "with" Jacob

I wish I could have gotten a better picture but out past that line of waves was a pod of dolphins.

Making our souveniers instead of buying them.


Me and Breezy.

What else are you supposed to do when on the beach and the weather isn't ideal?

Feed the birds of course.

Stay tuned.

Monday, June 18, 2012

OBX (thats Outer Banks to the laymans)

The House


The house is broken down like this:

The main floor is half garage and half full bath, small living room complete with TV, Wii and basket of games as well as loveseat and sleeper sofa, and sliding doors out to the pool.




The second floor has the laundry room, three bedrooms, two full baths and the hot tub.



The third floor has the living room, dining room and another bedroom with full bath.


(the only picture of our room that I have)

The best part of the house is that the dining room and living room have sliding patio doors.  So whether your making dinner, eating at the table, vegging out on the couch, or having your coffee on the deck, you get this view: